THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OUTSIDE CHILE

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• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
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• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
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THE RESISTANCE MOVEMENT OUTSIDE CHILE
VI. Chilean resistance activities in Latin America
A. Argentina
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V. CHILEAN RESISTANCE ACTIVITY IN LATIN AMERICA
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29. Argentina's geographic proximity and until recently,
political receptivity have provided a good base for exile operations.
Although the Andes present a formidable barrier to communication,
there are many isolated passes which can be used successfully
by couriers and infiltrators along the long international boundary.
Probably the most favorable factor is the success of the Argentine
extremist organizations in carrying out kidnap-ransom operations,
which have yielded experience, skill, and large amounts of money.
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30. There are thousands of Chileans in Argentina, some
estimates put the number as high as 14,000. They are
grouped principally in Buenos Aires, Mendoza, Salta, and around
Bariloche. In the weeks following the coup they organized
themselves into two rival groups, one moderate, one radical.
They are the Patriotic Front of Chilean Resistance (FPRC),
composed of Communists, moderate Socialists, Radicals, and
members of the moderate faction of the United Popular Action
Movement (MAPU); and the Chilean Revolutionary Resistance (RRC),
composed of the MIR and the radical wings of the Socialist
Party and MAPU. (It is not surprising that the UP in:exile
has continued thefraditional division between moderates and
extremists that existed in Chile.)
31. The FPRC was reported to possess some 50 rifles,
plenty of money, and contacts with the Soviet and Cuban Embassies.
The RRC has received money and arms from the Argentine extremist
organizations. The Santucho faction of the ERP is allied
with the MIR and recently provided it with US $3 million from
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the Samuelson ,retts-efti-.1'fte-Rey... It has furnished other support
services, such as documentation �for MIR personnel, and has
agreed to turn over its weapons caches in Chile. The ERP is
the anchor organization of the fledgling but potentially
dangerous Latin American Revolutionary Coordinating Group, which
includes the Chilean MIR, the Uruguayan Tupamaros (MLN), the
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Bolivian National Liberation Army (ELN), and possibly one or
more Peruvian groups. The Cubans are behind this international
effort, and in Mario Santucho, they have a guerrilla fighter
of intelligence and energy, who probably envisions himself as
the successor to Che Guevara.
32. The PCCh decided about the beginning of 1974 that much
of the work of reorganizing its commissions and military apparatus
could be done more efficiently and securely outside the country.
It therefore began sending selected members to Argentina and
Peru to meet and make plans, and then return home to implement
them. One of the largest concentrations of PCCh members is in
Mendoza, where 300 young party members are living and working.
There are MIR and Socialist exiles in Mendoza also, but they are
largely inactive.
33. The turbulent political conditions in Argentina have
probably served to 'distract government attention away from the
Chilean exiles, but this situation may not last too long.
Refugees in Buenos Aires, who number about 1,800 recently
protested a Ministry of Interior order designed to force them
out of the capital into the provinces. Many plan to leave Ar-
gentina. Although the order was issued prior to Peron's death,
there is no evidence to date that the new regime plans to reverse
the trend toward tightening restrictions on Chilean exiles.
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